Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-10-20
THE TRANSFER MADE.
THBB. so. PLANT IN THIS CITY AND YICIN-
ITY HANDED0 OVER TO MANAGER TRACY.
The Change to Date Back 10 the fhsensh-rhe
BIO. Office to be Kept Open Temporarily,
but ths Work Of Moving the Wires
to Begin at Once.

Yesterday tie B. & o. plant in this city
formally changed hands, Mr.. c. Z. Tracy,
the local Western Union Manager, being
put in complete control Of the office, wires
etc, of their :once promising rival. The
transfer is dated back to the fifteenth OF
the month, the Western Union taking
charge of all accounts and general business
matters TRANSMITTING since that time. For
the present the B. & o. Off on Fourteenth
street will be kept open as branch OF the
Western Union, but this is only tempo
rary arrangement Manager Tracy will at
once put force oflinenen to work trans
ferring the B. & o. wires to the regular
Western Union Office, and when that Is
accomplished the Fourteenth street light
ming shop will be closed up as far as CON-
mercial business is concerned. There are
nineteen B. & o. wires in the Wheeling
Office, the establishment here being among
the largest formerly owned by the railroad
company. AS yet there has been no change
in the B. & o. Office force, nor will there
be any before the completion of the trans
fer of the apparatus. What will be done
after that time is rather uncertain.
In an interview with Manager Tracy, of
the Western Union, last evening, that gen.
tleman said he wanted to assure the bust
ness public that he hoped when the con-
solidation was completed, to give better
facilities than ever before in the history Of
the city. The additional wires would at
ford the Western Union communication
with a number Of West Virginia points,
along the line of the B. & o., not hereto
fore reached by his company, while the
additional through wires would permit OF
a more prompt and satisfactory transmits
sion of both commercial and news matter.
His office force will be augmented to cor
respond with the additional plant put I'M
der his charge, and the consolidation will
thus be beneficial.
Mr.. Tracy will without doubt exert
himself to the utmost to benefit the pub
lie. He has already done more than any
of his predecessors in Wheeling to make
the telegraph facilities of the town what
they ought to be, and the Wheeling office
is now model of its kind.
The transfer of the B. & .. office brought
three high officials of the Western Union
working staff TO the city. The strangers
were Messrs. n. Doran, General Superin-
tendent of Construction; c. o. Rowe, Su-
perintendent of Telegraph, aud Thomas
Bernard, Superintendent Of Construction.
They were on tour of inspection of the
recently purchased line, and after looking
over the plant in this city, in company
with Manager Tracy, the strangers left for
Parkersburg on similar mission. From
Parkersburg they will 20 up the Branch
to Grafton, and then on to Cumberland,
after which they will probably come back
to this city, to look after some details con-
nected with the consolidation. 1t is prob
ably the b. & o. plant between Wheeling,
Parkersburg and Cumberland will con-
stitute q division, the headquarters OF
which will be in Wheeling.